566 State Assistance to Agriculture in Denmark, [oct., 



at first small, unregistered cows may also be submitted to 

 the test. The action of the society is at present limited to 

 recording the yield and quality of milk of members' cows, 

 and does not take into account the quantity of food required 

 by the animals as is done by the Danish and other societies. 

 An assistant is employed by the society, who visits the 

 farm of each member once a month. He arrives at the farm 

 in the morning, weighs and samples the milk of each cow 

 at the mid-day, evening, and next morning's milkings, and 

 is taken by the farmer to the next farm to be visited. The 

 samples are sent by post, in boxes containing 50 samples, to 

 the Agricultural Experiment Station of the Department, and 

 tested for butter fat, the results of the tests being sent to the 

 Society and entered in the herd-book. 



The Board have received through the Foreign Office a 

 report by Mr. Vice-Consul Turner on certain points in con- 

 nection with agriculture, forestry, and 



State Assistance dairying in Denmark, 

 to Agriculture Under the Danish Budget for 1910, 



in Denmark. a sum 0 f j£ r 5,099,630 (,£283,313), or 

 about a twentieth of the whole national 

 annual expenditure, was allotted to the Minister of Agricul- 

 ture for various objects coming within his province. 



Apart from the agricultural high schools, veterinary 

 schools, cottars' schools, experimental laboratories, and so 

 on, which are maintained or subsidised by the State, the 

 method whereby State assistance is rendered to the individual 

 agriculturist may be summarised as follows : — 



The individual applies to his local association (agricultural, 

 small-holder, or so on, as the case may be) for the assistance 

 he needs. The local association considers his application, 

 and forwards it with remarks to the Amalgamated Associa- 

 tion Committee of the province, who, in their turn, submit it 

 to the Ministry of Agriculture. The Ministry replies to the 

 local Society. By this means the administrative work of the 

 Ministry is simplified, and, at the same time, it is possible 

 to keep the amounts expended more evenly distributed among 

 the various provinces. 



The Danes have developed the faculty of forming them- 



